Objectives

Provide quality-assessed input for a growing range of environmental applications.

At present, the focus is on standardising soil point (profile) data for the world. The quality assessed and standardised data are freely available to the international community through several webservices, in compliance with the conditions specified by the various data providers.

Data sets

Snapshot (static) datasets: These are a representation of the complement of standardised data available at a given moment (e.g. July 2016). Each snapshot is given a unique name and digital object identifier (doi) for consistent citation purposes.
See:
- https://www.earth-syst-sci-data.net/9/1/2017/
- WFS link for your GIS application: http://data.isric.org/geoserver/wosis_snapshot/wfs

Latest (dynamic) dataset: This dataset contains the most recent complement of standardised soil data served from WoSIS. Being dynamic, the dataset will grow once new point data are standardised, additional soil properties are considered, and/or when possible corrections are required. The set is served through an OGC-compliant WFS (Web Feature Service):
- WFS link for your GIS application: http://data.isric.org/geoserver/wosis_latest/wfs

Consortium

The DATA (WoSIS) project draws on voluntary contributions from numerous data providers, and plays an important role in supporting the activities of the ICSU-WDS accredited World Data Centre for Soils (WDC Soils) at ISRIC.